Lost (season 3)

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Lost Season 3
Find Yourself... Lost
Country	USA
Network	ABC
Original runs	October 4, 2006 – May 23, 2007 (scheduled; in production)
No. of episodes	22
DVD Release Date	2007
DVD Format	Widescreen Box Set

The third season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on October 4, 2006 and will finish airing on May 23, 2007. It continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the south Pacific, after their airplane crashed 68 days prior to the beginning of the season, while they are antagonized by a group of mysterious island inhabitants they call, "The Others."

The season is produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Television Studio), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the U.S. Its incidental music is composed by Michael Giacchino. The executive producers are Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Jack Bender, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner and J.J. Abrams.^[1] The staff writers are Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Jeff Pinkner, Drew Goddard, Christina M. Kim, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The regular directors are Jack Bender and Stephen Williams. The third season has so far averaged 15.76 million viewers per episode.^[2]

Contents 1 Broadcast history 2 Cast 2.1 Starring 2.2 Recurring Characters 2.3 Special Guest Stars 3 Plot 3.1 Background 3.2 Island plot summary 4 Impact 4.1 Ratings 4.2 Reception 4.3 Awards 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Broadcast history

Production of the season began on August 4, 2006.^[3] Twenty-two episodes will be produced in total, the season finale of which will be twice the length of a normal episode. To limit the number of reruns in the United States and Canada, the first six episodes, that started October 4, 2006 and ended on November 8, were followed by twelve weeks with no episodes at all, and are continuing consecutively with the next sixteen episodes, which premiered on February 7, 2007.^[4] 30-second teaser clips from the second segment of the season, entitled "Lost Moments" aired on television and online from November 15, 2006 until February 1, 2007. Extended versions of the episodes will be run following the completion of the season.^[5] Two clip-shows also aired, "Lost: A Tale of Survival" on September 27, 2006 and the "Lost Survivor Guide" on February 7, 2007.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Starring

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko
• Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah
• Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume
• Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton
• Michael Emerson as Ben Linus
• Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
• Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
• Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford
• Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon
• Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon
• Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
• Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet Burke
• Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace
• Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
• Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez
• Rodrigo Santoro as Paulo

[edit] Recurring Characters

• Blake Bashoff as Karl
• Michael Bowen as Danny Pickett
• Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert
• Andrew Divoff as Mikhail Bakunin
• Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau
• M. C. Gainey as Tom
• William Mapother as Ethan Rom
• Tania Raymonde as Alex
• John Terry as Christian Shephard

[edit] Special Guest Stars

• Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford
• Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle

[edit] Plot

[edit] Background

The third season continues 68 days after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, set on November 28, 2004. At the end of the second season, three of the crash survivors - Jack, Kate and Sawyer - were captured by the mysterious island inhabitants known as "The Others". The Others' apparent leader is a man who was captured in the middle of the second season and used the alias "Henry Gale." Meanwhile, near the survivors' camp on the beach, Locke, Mr. Eko, Charlie and Desmond argued over whether to continue entering the numbers into a computer in a workstation that was previously operated by a group of scientists known as the DHARMA Initiative. Locke became frustrated and destroyed the computer, which caused the station to implode and a purple light shone over the sky, which was accompanied by a harsh ringing sound.

[edit] Island plot summary

The activities of the Others immediately prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 are revealed, as they are shown to have been living in modern suburban houses in a previously unseen section of the island. Their leader appears to be Benjamin Linus, known as Henry Gale among the survivors.

Jack, Kate and Sawyer are imprisoned on a separate island offshore from the survivors' island and kept under surveillance by Ben's cameras. Kate and Sawyer are kept in outdoor cages, apparently designed for polar bears, and are let out to do hard labor. Jack is kept inside the "Hydra", an underwater DHARMA Initiative station. He is interrogated by an Other named Juliet, who does not show the same reverence to Ben as do the rest of the Others. Jack finds out that Ben has a spinal tumor, and the operation Ben needs is the main reason for Jack’s captivity. During Ben’s surgery, Jack incises Ben's kidney sac, which he uses as bargaining power to help Kate and Sawyer escape. They do, and Jack is moved from the Hydra island.

The "smoke monster" lures Mr. Eko into the jungle by taking the form of his deceased brother Yemi, and then beats Eko to death. After the implosion of the hatch Desmond gained the ability to foresee future events, most notably Charlie's approaching death. Nikki and Paulo are buried alive after being mistaken for dead, when in fact they had been bitten by venomous spiders, causing an eight-hour paralysis.

Kate, Locke and Sayid trek to save Jack from the Others, with Rousseau joining them with the hope of regaining her daughter Alex, who had been captured 16 years prior. They find the final DHARMA station, "The Flame," and two occupants, both of whom die shortly after with Locke killing Russian communications expert Mikhail by pushing him through a sonic barrier. The rescue team finds Jack, apparently living happily with the Others. Locke destroys the Others' submarine, and discovers that they have his father in captivity.

The survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 have been stranded on the island for about 81 days (set at December 11, 2004) at the end of the fourteenth episode.

[edit] Impact

[edit] Ratings

The third season premiere was watched by 18.82 million viewers in the United States,^[6] a drop from the second season premiere, which was viewed by 23.47 million.^[7] The six fall episodes averaged 17.84 million viewers.^[8] The second set of episodes switched timeslots from 9:00 to 10:00, so as not to again lose viewers to American Idol; however, Lost saw a huge drop in the ratings, despite consistently winning its timeslot in the key 18-49 demographic,^[9] and the producers later admitted that the timeslot change had been a mistake for ABC.^[10] Lost also met new series lows with the eighth episode, which was watched by 12.84 million viewers,^[11] the tenth episode, watched by 12.78 million viewers,^[12] the eleventh episode with 12.45 million viewers,^[13] the thirteenth episode watched by 12.22 million^[14] and the fourteenth episode with 11.52 million viewers.

[edit] Reception

Despite still being among the most watched and acclaimed series on American television, the third season endured more criticism than the show had in its previous years. The first segment of episodes has been criticized as not bearing the same quality of the prior seasons. Show runner Damon Lindelof responded that when the second season was aired, it was criticized as not being as enjoyable as the first season.^[15] The main complaint is that new mysteries are being introduced at a faster rate than old mysteries being solved, and numerous articles on this criticism were written for newspapers and online journals.^[16] A recurring complaint of the first half of the third season was that the storyline concentrated too much on the captivity storyline, resulting in limited screen-time for the rest of the cast on the beach.^[17] Some fans also complained that the advertisements were misleading and the episodes did not live up to the hype. The fall finale was advertised by ABC as the best Lost episode of 2006.^[18]

[edit] Awards

The episodes, writers, producers and actors of the third season have won Image and Golden Reel awards and have been nominated for Golden Globe, Saturn, C.A.S., Golden Reel, Episodic Televison Producer of the Year and Writers Guild of America awards.^[19]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official ABC streaming video website - full-length Lost season 3 episodes available (within USA only)
• Official ABC Lost website
• Official Channel 4 -uk-Lost website

Lost
Production:	DVD releases | Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Soundtrack
Main characters:	Ana Lucia | Ben | Boone | Charlie | Claire | Desmond | Hurley | Jack | Jin | Juliet | Kate Libby | Locke | Michael | Mr. Eko | Nikki | Paulo | Sawyer | Sayid | Shannon | Sun | Walt
Supporting characters:	Alex | Bernard | Christian | Cindy | Ethan | The Others | Pickett | Rose | Rousseau | Tom
Organizations:	DHARMA Initiative | Hanso Foundation | Oceanic Airlines
Elements:	Crossover list | DHARMA Initiative stations | Flight 815 | Mythology | Thematic motifs
Miscellaneous:	Gary Troup | In popular culture | Lost Experience | Rachel Blake | Video game

Season Two Episode list Lost Season Three
A Tale of Two Cities • The Glass Ballerina • Further Instructions • Every Man for Himself • The Cost of Living • I Do • Not in Portland • Flashes Before Your Eyes • Stranger in a Strange Land • Tricia Tanaka Is Dead • Enter 77 • Par Avion • The Man from Tallahassee • Exposé • Left Behind • One of Us • Catch-22 • D.O.C.